Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Sean Broderick (Washington), Jens Flottau (Frankfurt), Guy Norris ( Los Angeles ), Adrian Schofield (Auckland)
The story of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 reads like bad fiction—a perfectly safe aircraft disappears from radar on a scheduled flight, and the extensive international search-and-rescue effort that ensues finds few clues. It is not fiction, but it should be in light of the technology to monitor aircraft and the massive amounts of operational data available.
U.S. airlines, coming off a year of little traffic growth and big profits, will boost capacity and traffic slightly in fiscal 2014 before a short-term jump-start followed by a steady period of growth through 2034, the latest FAA forecast projects. For U.S. carriers, system capacity—international and domestic combined—is expected to increase 1.5% this year after a 0.8% bump in 2013, FAA says. It will then increase by an average of 2.7% per year for the remainder of the agency’s 20-year forecast.
FAA and Transport Canada have codified requirements for operators of Boeing 737s with older LiveTV in-flight entertainment (IFE) radomes to inspect the units for cracks, mandating a program that the vendor and operators have had in place for several years.
